Word: vilely
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...drive them, this unholy trio thrashes out a sometimes funny, sometimes corrosive drama based on Harold Pinter's London and Broadway stage success, The Caretaker. It is still morbidly fascinating to watch. And what made the play important remains perfectly clear: dialogue so richly human that every vile syllable sounds like a cry for help, plus superb acting of their original roles by Pleasence, Shaw and Bates...
Some cures, such as gulping vile-tasting mineral water at a spa, seem worse than the disease. On the other hand, as Soubiran rhapsodized, the liver after all is a "gland more precious than others, which regenerates the blood, stores vitamins, eliminates toxic and waste materials, manufactures reserve sugars, distributes alimentary fats, manufactures iron, assures normal blood coagulation, and controls the functioning of the sexual glands." The liver, he concluded, "is a friend which one must know how to care for. Is it not the liver which controls your sentimental life and your figure...
...skylarks down the scruffy street, the colored slum kid in the Northern city, headed for the public school. He wears a white shirt with a bow tie, and a good warm windbreaker. His smile is toothy, his epithets vile. He is eight, and can't read much. His teacher, a man with a heart of case-hardened gold, sometimes thinks of him as a "little bastard," but the boy has good intelligence and intentions. Such, in many variations, is the "disadvantaged" child, and he and his like now comprise one-third of all pupils in the nation...
...small square lace apron round his waist" and a black mask over his head so he "cannot be recognized." The dinner, it appears, is "followed by perverted sex orgies; the guests undress and engage in sexual intercourse one with the other, and indulge in other sexual activities of a vile and revolting nature...
...Hayes, for his license, he alleged that Charlie Ware, who appeared to him to be very, very drunk, called out something like "God damn the Law and you too." Under the Georgia statute dealing with public drunkenness, any person who displays his drunkenness in a public place by using vile language or violent discourse is guilty of a misdemeanor...